March 20, 2010
at 10:21 pm
(General)
Seems a lot of people were happy when I posted the Pantech UM175 driver on the website because of Verizon’s mindset. Well I was setting up another card yesterday afternoon and this was a UM150. Well this time I had the CD and decided to just zip the files up and post on the site here.
If the driver helps you, please take the time to leave a quick comment. Thanks.
I can no longer handle the file bandwidth load these two drivers require, but from visitors comments, I have tested and the phone number 000-000-0000 does work to download the drivers. You can find them all on http://vzam.net
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March 19, 2010
at 10:19 pm
(General)
We recently, (over the course of about a year now) have been moving all of the phone services at my workplace from Verizon over to Sprint. Apparently they had a better deal with free phones for a lot of users. No idea, that’s not my department.
All of the executives would like better phones now of course, so we get to have some neat choices in IT so we can learn how the phones operate to help the executives when they need it. So now we are running around with some Palm Pre devices. Not very…Corporate? You would say and be right, they are not as manageable as the Blackberry with our BES server. But they are neat devices and I’m enjoying it at the moment, although I only use the phone portion most of the time. I’m not big on phones.
Some other items we acquired while moving to Sprint were some AIRAVE devices. I went ahead and installed one in my home, being we had quite a few left over. So far it is working great, full bars
On the right, the white device. I need to run the GPS antenna into the attic, probably do that over the weekend. Sorry for the bad image quality, still don’t have my real camera back yet.
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March 19, 2010
at 10:19 pm
(General)
So I was asked to visit the CEOs house today to work on a small network problem and get her printer up and running and such. After all this was done, she brings me her son\’s laptop with a Verizon USB Cellular Modem and asks if I can install it for her. I have no real problem doing this so I load up the laptop and it has the software already installed! Alright, so I execute the software and it asks me to plug in the device, I do so and then it asks for a driver.
…What? Alright the software was installed, but there is no driver? Fine. I visit Google, type in Verizon UM175 Driver and all I get are shitty websites trying to get me to buy something, fill out my email, put in a credit card number to download the driver. Hm, no.
Well I come to find out that you can only get this driver directly from Verizon’s Website. Fine. I visit, search for UM175 and it comes up. I click to download and it asks my Operating System, USB or PCMCIA, and then it asks for the Cell Phone number of the card. Why? I just need the fucking driver. So I have to call up the corporate office and speak to our telecommunications guy, I give him the serial and he looks everything up and gives me the phone number, which was nowhere to be found on the USB modem itself.
So I put in the number and the driver downloads and that’s really all, it works fine. My point is, why is it so difficult to get a driver for this device? Phone number to download? Why, do you need to make sure it’s your card to get this generic driver? Odd since even Pantech’s website does not have the driver. Anyway, just to piss anyone off at Verizon or Pantech I have the driver available to anyone here, hopefully you will find this site before you dig around and have to call for help.
I have since removed the driver from my website, too many people needing it, and I didn’t need the overhead bandwidth. You can find it here: http://vzam.net
When asked for the phone number of your device, enter 000-000-0000.
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